Kategoria BISAC: Health & Fitness >> Sexuality

In this new full-length study of Jane Rule's life and work, Marilyn Schuster argues that Rule's novels provide a way of -writing and reading lesbian- that resists and subverts dominant discourses of gender and sexuality-both those of mainstream culture and of political and sexual subcultures.

From her earliest novel, Desert of the Heart (1964), Rule's fiction has provided a challenge to the concept of a fixed identity and to the identity politics founded on such a concept. Incorporating all of Jane Rule's early work-including unpublished manuscripts, letters, magazine and...

In Sexual Harassment, Joan Kennedy Taylor questions establishment assumptions that women are, by definition, passive victims who require government help. She not only summarizes present law and policies but illustrates various non-governmental methods of countering expressive behavior that is offensive but not truly harassing, including a new feminist approach to company training programs.

From the early days of second-wave feminism, motherhood and the quest for women's liberation have been inextricably linked. And yet motherhood has at times been viewed, by anti-feminists and select feminists alike, as somehow at odds with feminism. In reality, feminists have long treated motherhood as an organizing metaphor for women's needs and advancement. The mother has been regarded with suspicion at times, deified at others, but never ignored.

The first book devoted to this complex relationship, Motherhood Reconceived examines in depth how the realities of motherhood have influenced...

On Christmas day, 1993, a 59-year-old British woman gave birth to healthy twins. In Italy the very same week, a black woman bore a white baby, produced from the semen of her white husband and an egg donated by a white woman. Heated debates ensued across the United States and Europe.

Fifteen years ago the very idea of conception outside a woman's womb triggered science fiction fantasies and alarmist speculations. Today, thousands of babies are manufactured with the help of in-vitro fertilization and related technologies each year. The application of these procedures has continuously...

The detailed illustrations and instructions can be easily absorbed in one evening so that sensual techniques of Erotic Massage can be enjoyed immediately. Millions of readers are experiencing the sexual rewards of Tantric lovemaking - and Erotic Massage is among the most accessible and explicit works to bring Tantric methods to Western couples.

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- Offers acupressure methods to build intimacy and heighten sexual pleasure.

- Helps couples find their sexual energy potential and physical compatibility.

- Provides techniques to perform time-tested Taoist sexual-spiritual exercises.

- By Mantak Chia, coauthor of The Multi-Orgasmic Man.

The most powerful reflex points on the body are on the sexual organs. While the practice of reflexology is normally associated with massage of the feet, in Sexual Reflexology Mantak Chia...

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We meet Lyle Monelle and his mother, Jessie, who recognized early on that her little girl was in fact a boy and used her life savings to help Lyle make the transition. On a Carnival cruise with a group...

The book deals expertly with a wide range of issues, including: the viagra revolution; how aging affects erectile function; the various treatments of erection problems, and estrogen replacement after menopause.

Here is the essential sexual guide for the millions of baby boomers and aging adults who want to maintain their sexual health growing older.